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| What was an effect of the Paramount Decision of 1948? |
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| the major Hollywood studios sold their chains of movie theaters |
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| What was not a cause of declining movie attendance in the years after World War II? |
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| a decline in Hollywood production values in the wake of the Paramount Decision |
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| Why did Eastmancolor replace Technicolor as the standard color format for American films? |
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Eastmancolor film stock could be used in any camera
Many cinematographers believed Eastmancolor looked better than Technicolor in widescreen formats
Answer is A and B |
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| What was not a direct effect on the film industry of the competition from television? |
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| the popularity of art house theaters |
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| What made drive-in theaters so successful? |
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| they were built on cheap land close to the suburban population and had successful concession stand sales |
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| What film was pivotal in the struggle against film censorship in the years after the Paramount Decision? |
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| What is "roadshow" exhibition? |
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| opening a film in only one theater per market and charging higher prices with assigned seating |
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| What term refers to the system of film production whereby an agent brings together a script and talent (stars, a director, etc.) to attract funding? |
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| How was the influence of Citizen Kane seen in the Hollywood films of the years following it? |
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| many films used flashbacks, deep focus, or long takes |
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| What post-War Hollywood genre is represented by the celebrated productions of MGM's Freed Unit? |
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| Which of the following best characterizes the West German film industry in the years after World War II? |
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| American films dominated the German market |
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| What characterizes the postwar European modernist cinema? |
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| What made Italian Neorealist films seem so realistic? |
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location shooting
critical examination of recent history
engagement with contemporary social problems
Answer is all of the above |
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| What distinguishes Neorealist narratives from more typical, mainstream ones? |
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| all events are "flattened" to the same level of significance |
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| Which Roberto Rossellini film of 1945 shocked viewers when its heroine, played by Anna Magnani, was killed half-way through? |
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| Which Italian director combined an operatic style with sumptuous costumes and settings and a languid, pan-and-zoom camera technique? |
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| Which Italian director was known for his mix of secular humanism and modernist de-dramatization techniques such as "empty intervals"? |
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| What was the effect of the Blum-Byrnes Agreement of 1946? |
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| American imports to France increased dramatically |
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| What does not describe the French Tradition of Quality? |
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| Which director in the postwar French cinema was known for his elaborate camera movements, controversial sexual subject matter, episodic narration, and reflexivity? |
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| Which postwar French director, who was also a writer and visual artist, made self-consciously "poetic" films drawing on mythology and fairy-tales? |
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| Which of the following does not characterize the British film industry after World War II? |
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| there was much competition between many small, independent firms, with no vertical integration or monopolistic control of the industry |
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| What form of film exhibition gained British films success with American audiences in the late 1940s? |
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| What effect did the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II have on Japanese film production? |
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| What sort of films did Japanese producers typically export to the west in the 1950s? |
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| What film is an example of the new humanism in Soviet cinema of the late 1950s? |
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| What does not characterize Chinese cinema in the late 1940s? |
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| Chinese films were successful as exports to the USSR, Eastern Europe, and India |
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| What effect did the Great Leap Forward and its aftermath have on Chinese cinema? |
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regional film production increased
more films were made about Chinese minorities
a renewal of the historical film
Answer is all of the above |
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| What is true of post-partition Indian cinema? |
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| virtually all Hindi films had several song and dance numbers |
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| Which Latin American country had the most productive film industry in the postwar years? |
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| Which of the following was not one aspect of auteurist film criticism? |
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| dismissal of European cinema as decadent and irrelevant |
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| Which film by Akira Kurosawa, which became popular in the West, innovated a complex flashback structure in which each account of the same event differs drastically from the others? |
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| What are characteristics of Kurosawa's style? |
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| multiple camera and telephoto lens |
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| Which art cinema director consistently made use of symbolic locations, such as the road and the seashore, and used recurring characters such as the holy fool and the sensual whore? |
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| What best describes the films of Robert Bresson? |
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| religious films shot in a restrained, austere style with subdued acting |
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| What is a general stylistic trend in New Cinemas of the 1960s? |
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discontinuity editing
long lenses
long takes
Answer is all of the above |
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| What does not characterize the French New Wave? |
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| extreme modernist ambiguity |
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| What most internationally successful Italian genre of the 1960s? |
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| What best characterizes the British "Kitchen Sink" trend in filmmaking of the 1950s and 1960s? |
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| everyday realism set among the working class |
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| What was the significance of the Oberhausen Manifesto of 1962? |
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It let to the establishment of the Kuratorium Junger Deutsch Film (Commission for Young German Film)
It paved the way for a new German cinema which stressed the importance of the director as author
It voiced the younger generation's rejection of the German film establishment
Answer is all of the above |
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| Which New Cinema movement was characterized by one of its key figures as practicing an "aesthetics of hunger," calling attention to the suffering of the poor and offering political critique? |
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| What trend was not important for postwar documentary production? |
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| Which French filmmaker directed the documentary Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog), a study of a Nazi concentration camp? |
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| What was not a technical innovation that led to Direct Cinema? |
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| What not a significant trend in postwar avant-garde cinema? |
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